The U.S. military struck targets in Iran near the Strait of Hormuz in what a spokesman for the military said Monday were acts of self-defense.Capt.

Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said that after the war Gulf nations would no longer be “shields” for U.S. bases. Erika Solomon Aaron Boxerman Eric Schmitt Tyler Pager and Ephrat Livni Iran’s supreme leader,

The US military said it had carried out strikes in southern Iran, targeting missile launch sites and Iranian boats that it said were attempting to lay mines, despite the ongoing ceasefire. "U.

The new U.S. military action threatens to complicate a shaky ceasefire and ongoing negotiations to end a months-long war.

Military officials said that the strikes targeted missile sites near a major Iranian port that threatened U.S. ships.

The U_S_ military said Monday that it carried out “self-defense” strikes in southern Iran, including on missile launch sites and boats placing mines, even as President Donald Trump said on social media that negotiations were “proceeding nicely.

Washington — The Islamic Republic of Iran maintains more military capabilities than the White House or Pentagon has publicly admitted, according to multiple U.S. officials with knowledge of intelligence on the matter. About half of Iran's stockpile of ...

On this Memorial Day, grieving families are remembering the 13 US troops who have been killed so far in connection with the war with Iran.

Iran has been rebuilding its military capacity much faster than expected during a six-week ceasefire with the US and Israel, according to new US intelligence reports. The ceasefir